Reinforcing repressions, the Belarusian powers tried to stifle the street protest. For a long time those who came to the streets were beaten brutally, cast into prison, sacked and expelled.
The Minsk city government has officially permitted Belarus`s opposition groups to hold a conference in Minsk on 1-2 October, at which around 800 delegates are expected to name a single challenger to Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenka in next year`s presidential election.
A leading European human rights watchdog on Friday condemned the recent crackdown on the Polish minority in Belarus and expressed its concerns over the persecution of journalists and civil liberties activists in the former Soviet country.
"Our conference is dedicated to issues of democratization in the post-Soviet area following the events in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan," the leader of the [the Azerbaijani opposition] Musavat Party, Isa Qambar, said today in his address to the international conference called "Azerbaijan and Belarus at the second stage of democratization".
The protocol of intension on cooperation was signed between the Public Front Party of Belarus and opposition party Musavat today. The deputy chair of the Public Front Party of Belarus Ales Mikhailovich and chair of Musavat Isa Gambar undersigned the document.
Speaking at the UN summit in New York Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka voiced the viewpoints of Belarus on the most topical problems of the present-day world.
Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his Iraqi counterpart, Jalal Talabani, spoke for resuming war-interrupted cooperation between the two countries at their meeting in New York on 15 September, the press office of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry reported.
ARTICLE 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression, wishes to congratulate the Belarusian Association of Journalists on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. ARTICLE 19 has been cooperating with the Belarusian Association of Journalists since 1997, and is grateful to BAJ for the continuous support and information provided, which has allowed us to implement numerous projects in Belarus. During our visits to Belarus, we have been greatly impressed with the commitment and professionalism of BAJ`s staff, and their determination to promote freedom of expression in Belarus, even at the most difficult times. We have enjoyed working with BAJ`s staff not only for their professional skills, but also for their human qualities and friendship. We therefore wish BAJ to continue their successful activities for many more years, by working towards a more democratic and open Belarus. ARTICLE 19 wishes to extend its congratulations not only to BAJ`s members, but also to all Belarusian journalists, who continue to operate with courage under trying circumstances.
Germany`s Social Democratic Party (SPD) is closely following the fate of Nikolai Statkevich, a Belarusian opposition figure sentenced to a two-year "restricted freedom" term in an internationally criticized case, a high-ranking SPD officer said in an interview with BelaPAN.
Foreign secret services are taking a keen interest in Belarus ahead of the presidential election next year, the Itar Tass news agency quoted the head of the country`s security agency as saying on Sunday. "We see many secret services are carrying out very aggressive and hysterical work against our state," Stepan Sukhorenko, head of the State Security Committee, told reporters on Saturday.
Last week Belarusian dictator had a speech on UN summit in New-York with critics of policy of United States and UN. He called to release Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic. We offer you full version of Lukashenko’s speech.
On August 25, the press department of Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka announced that Belka had recently led a discussion with the prime ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine about the possibilities of overthrowing Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. The previous week, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski had held similar talks with the presidents of Ukraine, Georgia and Lithuania on the Ukrainian peninsula of Krim.
The Belarusian government has extended until June 30, 2007 the period during which private individuals can exchange their "Property" privatization vouchers for shares in stock corporations. The previous deadline was set for December 31, 2005
Harvesting is traditionally one of the most important economic campaigns in Belarus. Alyaksandr Lukashenka always takes the lead in exercising control over it. He often describes this period of the year as a battle for harvest. In his view, it has both economic and sociopolitical significance.
The heads of an Italian and an American marriage agency have been expelled from Belarus and banned from entering the country in the next five years, Aleksandr Gavrilov, chief of the ministry`s vice department, said at a news conference held in Minsk on Wednesday.
Belarus` interior ministry has opened a criminal probe against several agencies, suspecting them of sending 10 Belarusian university students to Turkey for forced labor, Aleksandr Gavrilov, chief of the ministry`s vice department, told reporters in Minsk on Wednesday.
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